Tagged Nicholas Courtney

Yes, you read that headline right! Forget CyberBrig, the legendary Lethbridge-Stewart is back in a new series of novels set after The Web of Fear, written by authors Andy Frankham-Allen, Lance Parkin, David A McIntee and Nick Walters. There are simply not enough exclamation marks to follow that sentence. So,take a moment, compose yourself, and find out…

The universe is big and vast and complicated, and sometimes, multiple castings happen and we call them miracles. Yes, some people may have freaked out when Peter Capaldi was cast as the Doctor, because he had appeared in the Whoniverse before, as Caecilius in 2008’s The Fires of Pompeii and as John Frobisher in Torchwood: Children…

If you read my review of the DVD release of The Enemy of the World, then you’ll perhaps understand why this is yet another tough release to cover. To summarise briefly, The Web of Fear has long been acknowledged as a ‘classic’; as, perhaps, Patrick Troughton’s best ever story (once Tomb of the Cybermen ruined…

Who does the Doctor call on when he needs someone to do the “dirty work” that he can’t – or just doesn’t want – to do? Well, as we’ve seen over the years, the Doctor often relies on his friends to play the action hero role for him. And in many instances over the last…

Last month, Doctor Who at the BBC Volume 8: Lost Treasures was released. This is a 2-CD set of rare and hard-to-find radio programme interviews with many important people involved in Doctor Who‘s production through the years. From the BBCShop description of Volume 8: “A brand new volume of Doctor Who-related interviews and features from the…

In August of 1987, I traveled to the UK from my home in New York City to attend the Leisure Hive convention in Swindon. In addition to the weekend spent there, I also spent nearly two weeks in London. I went to the theater a dozen times, and each show that I saw had at…

If, like me, you have all of Doctor Who at your fingertips, you’re probably aware that it’s easy to take segments of this amazing body of work for granted. In the case of Terror of the Zygons, I probably never will. I started watching Doctor Who in February 1974. I was three years old. Pulled in by the electric thrill…